THEORETICAL COMPARATIVE SURVEY INTO STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES OF ENGLISH AND ARABIC PHRASAL VERBS

Abstract

This article sets the target on doing typological comparison of two unrelated languages like English and Arabic with clear contrastive analysis of their idiomatic properties encompassing phrasal verbs and their word class verbs based on the lexical, semantic and stylistic features of idiomatic equivalency. The research is related to the problems of translation of phrasal verbs based on the comparison of that is the core of universal culture. Comparative analysis of semantic and lexical usage of phrasal verbs in the short stories, in particular setting semantic survey to full or partial equivalence between English and Arabic phrasal verbs. The content of the article starts with the brief description phraseology and its main assumptions as a theoretical discipline and sets on the practical analysis over phrasal verbs.